musk: Elon Musk activates Starlink internet service in Ukraine

Elon Musk stated Saturday his firm SpaceX’s Starlink satellite tv for pc broadband service had been activated in Ukraine, after a Kyiv official urged the tech titan to offer his embattled nation with stations.

“Starlink service is now lively in Ukraine,” Musk tweeted, including “extra terminals en route.”

The tweet got here some 10 hours after Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov urged Musk to offer Starlink providers to Ukraine, days after it was invaded by neighboring Russia.

“When you attempt to colonize Mars — Russia attempt to occupy Ukraine! Whereas your rockets efficiently land from area — Russian rockets assault Ukrainian civil individuals! We ask you to offer Ukraine with Starlink stations,” Fedorov tweeted at Musk.

He additionally referred to as on the billionaire “to deal with sane Russians to face” in opposition to their authorities’s invasion.

Web monitor NetBlocks stated Ukraine has seen a “collection of great disruptions to web service” since Thursday, when Russia launched army operations within the nation.

Starlink operates a constellation of greater than 2,000 satellites that intention to offer web entry throughout the planet.

The corporate on Friday launched an additional 50 Starlink satellites and plenty of extra are slated to be put into Earth’s orbit.